• Still alive
    Barely
    Seven shows in six days
    Don’t want to think about fuel consumption
    Two blown tires while doing 70mph
    More than 1000 miles in all
    Never had so much fun

    Thanks to Dusty Feighner for tagging along
    Made the road a little less hostile
    He’s going to open for us in September in JC

    Just finished putting together some flyers
    Plugging the 27 August show
    Blaine Younger, Trevor Burgess, Jimmy Billinger and I
    Song-swapping
    Four names, one money

    Just happy to be here.

    You’ll hear from me.

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    Got back from Salina last night
    At 10:00am this morning

    The lady at the Solomon station looked at me funny
    I bought a diet Coke and an extra large Snickers

    Pay attention to the convention
    Vote for Lee Jones for the Senate.
    Actually, I really don’t care…just don’t vote for Brownback.

  • Audio log entry

  • Stephen Hawking has recanted his prior belief that black holes have no hair. That is, all the information that is preserved when something crosses the event horizon is mass, spin, and charge. Now he says that it is perhaps possible to know a little more history than that when the black hole evaporates. He lost a long standing bet. I guess that’s why science isn’t a system of beliefs.

    Deines called the other night
    Wanted to know when the Aaron Traffas Show on Ice is coming to Topeka
    I mentioned something about an ex-girlfriend

    Going to meet up with Burgess after the auction tonight
    Going to go piss off Wade Bowen’s fans
    Bitch at them for being there instead of at the open mic
    Of course, where will we be?

    Heading to Oklahoma City tomorrow night
    Steve’s [Red] Rooster is one of the top 5 venues at which I’ve played
    Then on to Texas to Grumps

    Still haven’t heard back from the Barber County courthouse
    Supposed to be there for jury duty on Monday
    Wonder if I can vote guilty in absentia
    They probably frown on that

    McClure fired Pyeatt
    Dumbass
    Players like that don’t come along every day
    Sometimes it’s good to sacrifice the money for the sound
    Pyeatt was a hell of a nice guy

    Vote for Anybody But Brownback

    You’ll hear from me.

  • I bounced over to Hays last night
    On a whim
    Blaine Younger and Mike Kisner played Route 40

    I think we all had too good a time
    I got up and played a few
    I’d already had too much

    Trying to get myself to play was like trying to herd an old, blind cow through a series of gates in the rain.

    It was good to play with Blaine again
    It’d been a long, long time

    Vote for Anybody But Brownback

  • I’m back

    Back from the farm

    Back from the cloud of uncertainty

    Almost enough money made back to cover my time off

    Booking shows again

    Just when I told myself I was taking some time off this fall to begin some much needed recording, I spend 30 minutes typing all my upcoming shows in this email. I guess I’m back in the center seat again.

    Here are the hard points:

    Every Thursday Trevor Burgess (www.trevorburgess.com) and I are going to be running a free-for-all open mic night at Bobby T’s, home of the original open mic in Manhattan. Come out if you can, it’ll be just like Fats used to be.

    A week from this Saturday will be my first trip to Texas to play music with a brief stop off in Oklahoma City for a show. I hope I can keep the Republicans at bay.

    I have one hell of a week coming up at the end of this month. Burgess is dragging me along on a 7 shows in 6 days tour in Kansas and Oklahoma. He gets a break that Thursday but I don’t. I hope I make it to August in one piece.

  • Ahhh…relaxing at the Wave
    Picturing merchandise

    Listening to a DVD I downloaded of the Counting Crows
    Live from Amsterdam
    These guys used to be a rock band right out of the garage
    Sometime since I became a fan they became seasoned professionals
    There is a calmness about them that compliments their accuracy

    I’m going to add some Crows songs back to my setlist. Don’t worry, I’m still fighting the good red dirt fight. I just think it wouldn’t hurt to bring back some Crows, Son Volt, Ryan Adams, and Roger Clyne.

    I did the math today
    14 songs ready for the new CD
    Work begins in August
    Shooting for stocking stuffers

    Thanks to fellow musician Trevor Burgess for helping me move in to my new apartment. Thanks also to both him and Wayne Graham for helping me build and install a shower enclosure for the claw-foot tub that was there. I’m not big on baths. Trevor put it perfectly. “What’s the point? You take a bath and then you’re sitting there in your own muck.”

    “I wanna be the light that just burns out your eyes” -Adam Duritz, “Catapult”

  • Just a few minor points today

    Less describes bulk quantity
    Fewer describes a comparative number of pieces

    Less fuel
    Fewer gallons
    Less merchandise
    Fewer items
    Less filling
    Fewer carbohydrates
    Get the point?

    One more

    Good is an adjective
    Well is an adverb
    Adjectives describe nouns and nouns (or pronouns) only. Good does not describe how something works, runs, does, or sucks.

    I’m getting ready to move out of my apartment. True, I only signed the lease yesterday, but it was in just the wrong part of town.

    I went to Wal-Mart
    Spent an inordinate amount of money
    After having been cleaning all day
    I had 12 items in my cart
    I wanted a can of Skoal
    Their new policy says you can only buy tobacco at register 15
    I walked up to the register
    The sign said SPEEDY CHECKOUT
    10 ITEMS OR LESS!
    I couldn’t decide about what I was more mad. Could it be the notion that if you want to buy tobacco at Wal-Mart you are limited in the amount of other purchases you can make or the fact that whoever designed their signs didn’t pay attention in 7th grade English class when they taught that it should be “10 items or fewer”?

    Imbeciles.